The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21


and said: Farewell. my honorcd, faithful
and beloved wife The bond that bound
us is severed. Thou art in glory, and I
am here on earth. We shall meet again.
FAREWELL FAREWELL TO lean on prop
for fifty years, and then have it
break under youl There were only
two years difference between the death
of my father and mother. After my
mothers decease, my father used to
90 around as though looking for some
thing; he would often get up from one
room, without any seeming reason, and
go to another room; and then he would
take his cane and start out and some one
would say: Father, where are you
going1n and he would answer: Il don't
know exactly where | am going" Al
ways looking for something Though he
was q tender hearted man, | never saw
him cry but once, and that was at the
burial of my mother. After sixty years
living together it was hard to part. And
there are aged people today who are feel
iHg just such pang as that. l want to
tell them there is perfect enchant-
ment in the promises of this Cos
pei; and / come to them and
offer them my arm, or I take their arm
and 1 bring them to this Gospel. Sit
down, father or mother, sit down. See if
there is anything at the well for you.
Come David, the Psalmist, have you any
thing encouraging to offer them? eyes, "
says the Psalmist: ''They shall bring
forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat
and fOurishing, to show that the Lord is
upright, he is my rock, and there is no
unrighteousness in me" Come, Isaiah,
have you anything~to say out of your
prophecies for these aged people? eyes,
says Isaiah: Down to old age, l am with
thee, and to hoary hairs will I carry
thee" Well, if the Lord is going
to carry you, you ought not to
worry much about your failing eyesight
and failing limbs, You get a little worried
for fear some time you will come to want,
do you? Your children and grandchildren
sometimes speak little sharp at you be
cause of your ailments. The Lord will
not speak sharp. Do you think you will
come to want? Who do you think the
Lord is? Are his granaries empty? VIII
he feed the raven, and the rabbit, and the
lion in the desert, and forget you? Why,
uaturalists tell us that the porp0ise win
not forsake its wounded and sick mate
And do you suppose the Lord of heaven
and earth has not as much sympathy as
the fish of the sea? But you say: II am
| so near worn out, and l am of no use to
! God any more. " I think the Lord knows
| whether you are Of any more use or not;
! if you We're of no more use he would have
taken you before this. Do you think God
| has forgotten you because he has taken
| care of you seventy or eighty years? He
| thinks more of you today than he ever
did, because you think more Of him. May
| the God Of Abraham, and Isaac, and
Jacob, and Paul the aged, be your God
! foreveri
But gather all the promises today in a
| group, and l ask the shepherds to drive
their fiOcks of lambs and sheep up to the
! sparkling supply. Behold, happy is the
man whom God correcteth." " ''Though
he cause grief, yet will he have compass
sion. ''Many are the Affections Of the
| righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out
| Of them ALL ''Weeping may endure for
q night, but Joy cometh in the morning ~
am determined this morning that no one
shall go out ef this house uncontrolled.
Yonder is a timid and shrinking soul who
seems to hide away from the consultations
/ am uttering, as q child with a sore hand
hides away from the physician lest he
touch the wound too rnnGhly, and the
mother has TO go and compel the little
patient 20 come out and see the physician
So come TO your tinid and shrinking
soul today and compel you TO come out il
the presence of the Divine Physician. He
will not hurt you. He has been healing
wounds for many years, and he will give
you gentle and omnipotent medicament
But people, when they have trouble
go anywhere rather than to God
DeQuincy took opium to get rit
Of his troubles. Charles Lamt
took to punch. Theodore Hook to some
thing stronger. Edwin Forrest took t.
, theatrical dissipation. And men have ruI
all around the earth, hoping in The
quick transit to get away from their mis-
fortunes. 1t has been dead failure
There is only one well that can slake tht
thirst Of an afflicted spirit, and that is tn,
deep and ineEhaustible well Of the Gospel
But some one says in the audience
Notwithstanding all you have said thi
morning l lind no alienation for N.
troubles Well, | am not through vet
l have left the most potent consideration
for the last. l am going to soothe yol
with the thought of heaven. HOweve
talkative we may be, there will come
time when the stoutest and most emphati
} interrogation will evoke from US no an
swer. As soon as we have closed our Lip
for the final silence no power on cart
3 can break their taciturnity. But where
oh Christian, will be your spirit? In a seen
of infinite gladness. The spring rnornin
l of heaven waving its blossoms in tn
l bright air. Victors fresh from battl
showing their scars. The rain of earthl
l sorrow struck through with the rainboI
of eternal joy. In one group God an
! angels and the redeemed-Paul and Silas
Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah and jeremiah
I Payson and John Milton, Gabriel an
| Michael, the archangel Long line {
u choristerS reaching across the hills Sea
e OF JOY dashing to the white beach. Coz
Querors marching from gate to gate. 70
Z among them.
{ Oh, what great flock OF sheep God wi
! gather around the celestial well! No stoI
$ on the wells mouth while the Shepher
G waters the sheep. There Jacob will recos
G nize Rachel the shepherdess. And stan(
: ing on one side of the well of eternal RAJ
y Iure, your children; and standing on Il
j. other side OF eternal rapture, your Chri
'- tian ancestry, you will be bounded {
c all sides by a Joy so keen and grand tht
{ 40 other world has ever been permittt
q to experience it, Out of that one dee
k well of heaven the shepherd viii dip I
G upion for the bereaved, wealth for Il
q moor, health for the sick, rest for Il
/ weary. I'D then ell The dock Of ii
u Lords sheep will lie QoI:ss IL the gree
e pastures, and world without end W
I praise the Lord that on this summer Sa
e bath morning ave were permitted to stuC
e the story of Jacob and Rachel the she